September
- Opinion
- World politics
Kishida was better on the foreign stage than at home
The outgoing Japanese PM strengthened international ties and was decisive on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. However, he missed the opportunity to fix the economy.
- Shiro Armstrong
August
- Opinion
- US election
The astonishing metamorphosis of Kamala Harris
Her shift from indifferent vice president to source of Obama-scale enthusiasm has caught many unaware. Yet Democratic talk of victory is dangerously premature.
- Updated
- Edward Luce
- Opinion
- US election
Democrats put Donald Trump on notice
Vice President Kamala Harris has been miraculously reborn as the candidate of change, of a new generation, of hope and light against the old, dark, divisive past.
- Jennifer Hewett
‘Urgent’ $1.6b coal deal; BoQ to sack 400; $1b Aussie housing bet
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
Democrats, protesters in Chicago to cheer or challenge Harris and Biden
The Democratic National Convention kick-off was expected to draw tens of thousands of protesters, many opposed to the Biden administration’s support for Israel.
- Steve Holland, Doina Chiacu and Nandita Bose
James Wolfensohn’s Australian classics lead $14m art sale
The canvases by Arthur Boyd and Fred Williams adorned the Australian former president of the World Bank’s Manhattan apartment and lead Smith & Singer’s big mid-year sale.
- Elizabeth Fortescue
July
- Opinion
- US election
What if Joe Biden stays?
A second presidential term that was already burdened with political disadvantage will be incalculably more difficult because of questions about his age.
- Peter Spiegel
May
- Opinion
- Legal industry
How the US Supreme Court became a political organisation
When judges make decisions that should be left to politicians, they undermine democracy.
- Amanda Stoker
April
- Opinion
- US election
The election issue keeping Trump awake at night
Democrats need to press home their advantage on the abortion issue that seems a sure vote-loser for Republicans in November.
- Edward Luce
March
Biden enlists Obama, Clinton for $25m fundraiser event
President Biden, along with Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, arrived for a fundraiser in New York that raised $US25 million, a record for a single political event
- Lisa Lerer
February
- Opinion
- Monetary policy
Why central bankers are right to push back on rate cuts
Trying to rig economic growth by slashing interest rates ignores the forces that really decide what levels rates will be.
- Adrian Blundell-Wignall
January
- Updated
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Biden under pressure to respond to deadly attack on US troops
The president said the United States “will hold all those responsible to account at a time and in a manner [of] our choosing”.
- Updated
- Peter Martin and Eric Martin
Unsealed documents shed light on Jeffrey Epstein’s lurid world
Most of the documents do not include specific episodes of wrongdoing by men other than the disgraced financier, who was found dead in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019.
- Updated
- Joshua Chaffin and Joe Miller
December 2023
- Analysis
- Middle East tensions
Is Australia’s delay on US warship request dithering or prudent?
The opposition accuses the government of dithering. But it would be a dangerous mission, and there are powerful historical precedents.
- James Curran
November 2023
- Opinion
- World elections
Biden can’t spin his way to re-election
To prevent a second term of Donald Trump, Democrats must accept that what is going wrong is their basic proposition, not the framing or messaging of it.
- Janan Ganesh
- Opinion
- World elections
Joe Biden’s year of living dangerously
A Donald Trump victory next year would make the incumbent the most consequential single-term president in history – but not in a way he would wish.
- Edward Luce
October 2023
- Opinion
- Cryptocurrencies
Gaunt, shorn and bankrupt: fallen SBF appears in court
The former crypto mogul who once rubbed shoulders with celebrities and political leaders looked thin and was flanked by lawyers as his six-week trial began.
- Matthew Cranston
September 2023
Why Biden’s impeachment gamble could backfire
Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy hopes a new inquiry launched this week will save his job – and tarnish the US president in the lead up to the election.
- James Politi, Alex Rogers and Lauren Fedor
July 2023
- Opinion
- US election
The great Ron DeSantis campaign train wreck
The case for the Florida governor as the Republican nominee is based on a fatal misreading of what Donald Trump voters really want.
- Edward Luce
June 2023
In America there are two Trump truths: mine and yours
Veteran writer Andrew Clark experiences Donald Trump’s impact on the US through a famous New York bar.
- Andrew Clark